Explore a map Learn ArcGIS In this lesson, you'll open a web map and learn how to navigate and work with it using map tools as you explore Farmer Markets in the Louisville Area. 1. Go to www.arcgis.com and in the Search (upper right corner) enter LOJIC Training Map. Click the thumbnail of the Farmers Market map called LOJIC Training map to open it. When the map opens, you see Farmers Markets and ZIP Codes. Explore the map The map contains layers, and layers contain features. For example, each farmers market is a feature in the United States Farmers Markets Curated layer. In this section, you'll get information about features and navigate the map. 1. Click a farmers market on the map.
2. At the bottom of the pop-up, click Zoom to. The map zooms in on the feature. 3. Close the pop-up by clicking the X in its title bar. 4. Click the Default extent button in the upper left corner of the map. (It is the House icon between the Zoom out and Zoom in icons.) Now that you know something about how the map works, you'll look at how it's put together. View the map contents To work directly with the map layers, you need to switch to the Contents view of the map. At the top of the Details pane on the left, click the Content button. The order of layers on the Contents pane is the order in which they are drawn on the map. At the bottom, every map has a basemap layer. Every layer, except the basemap, can be turned on or off. On the Contents pane, click the check box next to USA ZIP Codes (2015) layer to turn the layer off. Turn on the 2012 USA Median Household Income (Mature Support) layer. Let s adjust the transparency of the Median Household Income layer. In the Contents pane, point to the Median Household Income layer. Click the More Options button (3 blue dots in a row) and choose Transparency. 6. Move the Transparency slider back and forth. When the layer is completely opaque, the basemap is obscured. 7. Move the Transparency slider to a position you like. Move the mouse pointer over some white space on the Contents pane, and click if necessary, to close the layer properties.
Use map tools You can also work with the map using tools on the ribbon. 1. On the ribbon, click the Measure button and click the Distance tool. 2. On the map, click the farmers market in Jeffersontown to start a measurement. 3. Move the mouse pointer to another farmers market double-click to end the measurement. 4. On the ribbon, click the Basemap button to open the Basemap Gallery. Click Imagery with Labels or another basemap. 5. Change the basemap to the Topographic basemap. You can't save changes to a map that is owned by someone else. You can, however, save a new version of the map as your own (as long as this property is enabled by the map owner). You could do that with this map, but it will be more fun to rebuild the map entirely from the basemap up. That's what you'll do in the next lesson.
Create a map Learn ArcGIS In this lesson, you'll recreate the map you explored in the previous lesson. You'll start a new map and add the layers you need. Every new map starts with a basemap. This lesson assumes that your default basemap is the Topographic basemap and that its default extent is the contiguous United States. If your settings are different, you'll make changes as needed in the first section. Create a new map 1. If a map is already open in your browser, click New Map in the upper right corner of the page. If necessary, choose Create New Map. On the Open map prompt, click Yes to open the map. 2. The new map opens to the United States. 3. On the ribbon, in the Find address or place box, type Jefferson County, KY. In the list of suggested locations, choose Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The map zooms to Jefferson County. 4. Close the Location pop-up. 5. If necessary, pan (drag) the map to center Jefferson County in the view. 1
When you save the map later in this lesson, the map extent at the time of saving will become the extent used by the Default extent button. It can also be useful to add spatial bookmarks to navigate to particular map locations. 6. On the ribbon, click the Bookmarks button. In the Bookmarked places list, click Add Bookmark. 7. Type Jefferson County and press Enter. 8. Close the list of bookmarked places. 9. At the top of the Details pane, click the Content button. 10. If necessary, click the Basemap button on the ribbon and choose Topographic. Add layers to the map You're ready to start adding layers to the basemap. 1. On the ribbon, click the Add button and choose Search for Layers. 2
In the Search for Layers pane, a default list of search results appears. You see layers that are shared with the organization and that have some geography in common with your map view. 2. Click the down arrow next to In and choose ArcGIS Online. 3. In the Find box, type Farmers Markets owner:storymaps. (Adding owner:storymaps filters to the StoryMaps owner.) 4. In the list of results, locate Unites States Farmers Markets - Curated by StoryMaps. Click Add to add the layer to the map. 5. In the same way, add the following layers from the search results to the map: Enter: ZIP Codes 2015 owner:esri_dm Enter: 2012 Median Income Select: USA ZIP Codes (2015) by esri_dm Select: 2012 USA Median Household Income (Mature Support) by esri 6. At the bottom of the Search for Layers pane, click Done Adding Layers. The layers are drawn, with their default symbols, in the order in which they were loaded into the map. Set layer properties In this section, you'll change some of the properties of the layers. You'll give them shorter names, change their position in the list of layers, add labels, and adjust transparency. Layer properties are always accessed in the same way: by pointing to the layer name and clicking an appropriate button or clicking the More Options button and choosing the property you want to change. 1. In the Contents pane, point to the USA ZIP Codes (2015) layer. Click the More Options button and choose Rename. 2. In the Rename window, change the layer name to ZIP Codes (2015) and click OK. 3. In the same way, rename the 2012 USA Median Household Income Value (Mature Support) layer to Median Household Income (2012). 4. Rename the United States Farmers Markets Curated layer to Farmers Markets. 5. In the Contents pane, point to the Farmers Markets layer. Click the More Options button and click Move up. The layer moves up one position, above the ZIP Codes (2015) layer. The Farmers Markets points are now more visible on the map. The usual practice is to put points (such as Farmers Markets) above lines, and lines above polygons. Points, lines, and polygons are all feature layers: they usually represent discrete geographic objects that have more or less precise locations and boundaries. The Topographic basemap is a tile layer. Tile layers are images and cannot be manipulated in the same ways as feature layers. They typically represent large, continuous surfaces rather than discrete objects. Tile layers cannot be moved above feature layers in a map. 6. In the Contents pane, point to the Farmers Markets layer. Click the More Options button and choose Create Labels. Each market is labeled with its name. 3
7. In the Label Features pane, change the label size to 11 and click OK. 8. Scroll over the ZIP Codes (2015) layer and click on the Change Style button to change the layer symbology. 9. Click on Options icon below the Select a drawing style. Click on Symbols. 10. Change the Fill to No Color and the Outline to Dark Blue. No Color Click OK. Click Ok in the Change Style window. Click Done. 11. Open the properties for the Median Household Income (2012) layer and choose Transparency. Make the layer about 50 percent transparent, or whatever looks good to you. 4
Save the map 1. On the ribbon, click the Save button and choose Save. 2. In the Save Map window, type Farmers Markets Map in the Title box. 3. For the tags, type words that will help people find the map through searches. After each tag, press Enter. 4. For the summary, type a brief description of the map's content. 1. Click Save Map. The map is saved to your My Content page in the organization. Edit item details Finally, you'll look at the map on your My Content page and add a description to it. 1. In the upper left corner of the page, click ArcGIS and choose My Content. On your My Content page, the map is listed by its name and other details. 2. Point to the down arrow next to the map title and choose View item details. The item details page contains information about your map. It also lets you share the map with others. 3. Scroll around the page to see when information can be edited. 4. Click on the Settings tab at the top of the page. 5
5. Optionally, check the Delete Protection box and Save. This will prevent you from accidentally deleting the map. Your map's item details are updated. In this lesson, you added several layers to the map and changed their properties. You've almost recreated the appearance of the map you explored in the first lesson. In the next lesson, you'll complete that work by adding a layer of Kroger Stores. Add and Symbolize the Kroger Stores Layer 1. Open the Farmers Markets Map by double clicking the map name on the My Contents page and click Open (in Map Viewer). 2. Click on Add to add a new layer and Search for the Kroger Grocery Stores in Jefferson County, KY by entering Kroger Jefferson County in the Search. Click Done Adding Layers. 3. In the Contents pane, point to the Kroger Stores layer and click the Change Style button. 4. Click Options for the Location (Single symbol) drawing style. 5. Under Showing Location Only, click Symbols to change the symbol. 6. A symbol palette opens, showing a variety of symbols that belong to the default Shapes category of symbols. ArcGIS Online also has many other symbol categories. 7. Click the down arrow next to Shapes and choose the National Park Service category. 8. In the National Park Service category, find the symbol with a bottle of milk and an apple on a black background and click it to select it. 9. Change the symbol size to 12 px (pixels) and click OK. 10. The symbols are updated on the map. 11. In the Change Style pane, click OK and click Done. 12. Save the map. The new symbols are intuitively recognizable as Grocery Stores. Their strong black and white colors help them stand out. 6
Configure store pop-ups Click a store to open its pop-up. The basic configuration of a pop-up is just what you see: a list of fields and values. Most pop-ups are essentially stylized views of a table of attributes associated with a layer. In this case, the default configuration has a few minor problems. For example, the store name appears twice: first as the pop-up title, and again in the list of fields. Also, it's unnecessary to to show the FID field. 1. Close the pop-up. 2. In the Contents pane, point to the Kroger Stores layer. Click the More Options button and choose Configure Pop-up. The default pop-up title is a field name, usually the NAME field, in curly brackets. Field names in curly brackets work like variables: when you click a store on the map, you see the name of that particular store. Under the Pop-up Contents heading, the display is set to a list of field attributes. This setting defines the list format that you saw in the pop-up. 3. Under the list of attributes, click Configure Attributes. In the Configure Attributes window, attributes are listed by their display status (on or off), field name, and field alias. 4. In the Display column, uncheck the box for the {NAME} field. 7
5. Uncheck the Display box {FID} fields as well. 6. Click OK. 7. At the bottom of the Configure Pop-up pane, click Save Pop-up. 8. Click on a store on the map to see its new pop-up. 9. The fields that you unchecked in the Configure Attributes window no longer display in the pop-up. 10. Save the map. 8